Chapter 1


Jenny was not in a good mood and everybody noticed. Eventually, Gibbs got tired of hearing her yelling all over the building and went to tell her that.

"She doesn't want to be disturbed." Cynthia tried to keep him from going into the office, but as usual, she didn't succeed.

Jenny looked up when the door slammed open. She knew who it was the second it opened. Who else could it be?

"What do you want Jethro?" She asked annoyed. She was in no mood to argue with him, especially not today. The thing is, he didn't know why and she wasn't about to tell him. He could tell something was bothering her. It wasn't only the fact that he had once again barged in. There was something else.

"You okay Jen?" he asked frowning.

"Just tell me what you want." She snapped. He was about to answer when his phone rang. They got a case and he just muttered "see you later" and left the office. Jenny sighed when he left and leaned back into her chair, turning it around to look out the window. The view of the city calmed her.


In the afternoon a man in uniform walked out of the elevator and to the bullpen. He was in his thirties, handsome, at least Ziva thought so, Tony not really, he was tall and had light brown hear. Ziva stood up and turned to him.

"Special agent Ziva David, what can I do for you?" She introduced herself.

"Lieutenant Matthew Davis. I'm here to see special agent Gibbs. He called me about Mark. " He answered.

"Of course. He went for coffee, but he will be back in a few minutes. You can wait here. I'm really sorry for your loss by the way." Ziva said. She had heard that their victim and Lieutenant Davis had been best friends ever since they were kids. She knew all too well what that was like.

"Thank you."

After Gibbs returned he went to the conference room with Lieutenant Davis to talk to him about his friend. He seemed like a nice guy and he and Johnson didn't have any apparent issues, but his gut told him something was off. He'd have to look into this Matthew guy. After a few minutes the director came in. He didn't think he'd see her again that day, at least not if she could help it. She came though, needing to get her mind off things. Gibbs looked to the door when it opened.

"Matt, this is Director Shepard." He said when she sat down. The moment she saw him, the color drained from her face.

"You okay Je…Director?" To be honest he was worried about her. She was really on edge these days and he didn't get why. That was something Leroy Jethro Gibbs hated.

"I'm sorry you just looked familiar. Go on." She apologized after she came back to the present. That man looked pretty much like her father did when he was younger. And that troubled her. She didn't think too much of it. Today wasn't a day where she could be objective. She saw what she'd like to see wherever she was going.

Gibbs gave him a glass of water in order to get his prints and DNA. Something was definitely off and he needed to know what.

"Thank you. That's all I needed for now." Gibbs told him, standing up. Jenny and Matt did so as well.

"You're gonna find who did this to my friend, right?" Matt asked. "I will." Gibbs reassured him. He knew he didn't kill his friend. It was something else that bugged him about this guy.

Lieutenant Davis left NCIS and Gibbs packed up the empty glass of water and went back to his team. Jenny went with him. She needed to be around people and not alone in her office. Gibbs went to Abby's lab with the glass and Jenny sat in his chair, waiting for him to come back. She wanted to work on something other than fixing whatever mess Gibbs got himself into or paperwork. She wanted to work on a case, remind herself of the good ol' days.

"Okay so Lieutenant Matthew Davis. He's married. He went from foster home to foster home until he was legally adopted at age fourteen. Adoptive parents both died when he was eighteen. He then joined the marines. Biological mother died at birth and there was never anything on the father. He's got no siblings and his record is clean. Boss, why are we doing this? The guy is clean, had no motive for killing Johnson, who was his childhood friend. We're wasting our time on him." Tony explained and complained.

"My gut tells me there's something off with him. There's something we're not seeing and I need to know what." Right then his phone rang and he answered, " Yeah, Gibbs."

"It's me. I've got something on Davis. Maybe my baby messed up, but to this day it never has so what I'm going to show you is right. You really need to see this. You need to get down here like right now. And bring the director." Abby's voice came through the phone. "Be right there Abs. You're coming with me." He pointed at Jenny. They walked to the elevator and pressed the button to Abby's lab.

"Whataya got Abs?" He asked when they got to the lab. Jenny was confused as to why she was needed down there too. As far as she knew, Abby didn't even know she was working on the case. She was confused and from the look on Abby's face, she was as well.

"Well I found the biological mother. She's not dead. It's really weird. I pulled the DNA from the glass and I didn't think I'd find a match to any relatives in the system, but I got a match after only a few seconds." She said, all the while looking straight at Jenny. Gibbs was now confused too. It was unusual to find relatives in less than a minute. And why was Abby only looking at Jenny?

"Are you going to tell me who it is?" He asked inpatient. Abby sighed, but nodded and pushed a button on the keyboard and on one side of the screen was a photo of Lieutenant Davis, on the other side a photo of none other than Jenny Shepard and the word match in between. Jenny was Matthew Davis' biological mother, which made absolutely no sense to any of them. All for different reasons, though.

Jenny looked at the screen, shock written on her face. All she could do was stare. She realized what she was seeing about two minutes later and sat down, noticing that Gibbs had already placed a chair behind her, expecting her to need it. Slowly, she felt tears well up and couldn't hold them back.


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